Taylor Swift gets groveling apology from Billboard for using controversial 'naked' Kanye West clip in career highlights

Taylor Swift received an apology from the euphony work Billboard aft it included footage of an infamous nude wax fig successful her representation successful a video meant to observe her career.

The shocking show primitively came to airy erstwhile her longtime nemesis Kanye West, 47, utilized it and nude figures of different celebrities successful his Famous euphony video.

Billboard was rapidly beset by a question of angry instrumentality complaints implicit utilizing the nude was figure.

‘'We are profoundly atrocious to Taylor Swift and each of our readers and viewers that successful a video celebrating Swift’s achievements, we included a clip that falsely depicted her,’ the work wrote successful an apology station shared connected X (formerly Twitter) conscionable aft midnight connected November 28. ‘We person removed the clip from our video and sincerely regret the harm we caused with this error.’

Notably, the changeable has present been removed from the video tribute.

So far, it's unclear however the inappropriate representation made its mode into Billboard's vocation highlights reel.

On Thursday, a corrective assemblage enactment was appended to Billboard's apology aft being ballot up by X users.

It noted the wax figure's origins successful West's Famous video, past went connected to assertion that 'the euphony video was revenge porn,' which is 'illegal successful astir U.S. states.'

However, due to the fact that of the information that the fig was created by an creator and was seemingly not intended to beryllium for explicitly intersexual purposes, it's improbable that it could beryllium classified arsenic revenge porn for the involvement of prosecution.

However, successful a Forbes station published aft the video was primitively released, Nicholas Rozansky argued that Swift, 34, mightiness person been capable to writer West for copyright infringement if the sculpture was based connected an existing copyrighted photograph oregon different image. 

She whitethorn person besides had the enactment to writer for defamation oregon libel owed to the intersexual quality of the sculpture, oregon perchance utilizing California's Right to Publicity law, which allows individuals to 'control the commercialized usage of his oregon her name, image, likeness, oregon different unequivocal aspects of one's identity.'

Ahead of the merchandise of the groveling apology, Swift's fans lambasted Billboard connected societal media for the video, which named her the second-greatest popular prima of the 21st century.

The fig came from the 2016 euphony video of Kanye West’s arguable opus Famous, which features the lyric: ‘I consciousness similar maine and Taylor mightiness inactive person enactment / Why? I made that b**** famous.’

In the divisive video, the bare waxwork was placed successful a furniture adjacent to others of high-profile individuals specified arsenic Amber Rose, Donald Trump, Rihanna, and Kanye himself.

At the time, the determination was criticized arsenic being misogynistic, and Taylor and Kanye were embroiled successful an ongoing feud.

‘Taylor is furious aft seeing Kanye’s video. She feels similar she’s been assaulted,’ a root told Hollywood Life astatine the time. 

So, aft Billboard chose to see that clip successful the video that was celebrating her occurrence and achievements, galore fans were near seething, contempt the work posting an apology.

After Billboard posted its apology, fans continued to rage.

'Okay, Billboard‘s volition was to recap everything that happened successful her full career, one get that. But was it truly indispensable to see THAT scene? Just nasty, disrespectful and unprofessional. #BillboardIsOverParty,' 1 idiosyncratic wrote.

'Taylor and her squad should instrumentality strict enactment cuz that was truthful unprofessional and problematic connected billboard’s part.' 

'That was intentional and nasty.'

'They honestly could've utilized 1 of her galore photos and they chose thing that's not adjacent truly her. the disrespect.'

'Disappointing prime by Billboard, disrespecting Taylor's boundaries again.' 

'I conscionable saw what @billboard did. YOU ARE DISGUSTING!!! I anticipation Taylor ne'er attends again successful your f****** anserine awards!!! #BillboardIsOverParty'

'@billboard there’s nary justification for digging up that footage and including it successful an homage to Taylor that was expected to observe her artistry. Callously utilizing not conscionable her trauma, but a transgression against her likeness to make attraction towards your database demands an apology.'

'@billboard was mentioning the kanye feud and the celebrated video and lyrics truly important successful announcement video for taylor successful top artists list?? how’s that applicable to her bequest and accomplishments??? you’re a portion of s***!'

'It’s baffling that Billboard would resurface that footage, utilized to humiliate and harass Taylor Swift, and see it successful a video meant to grant her artistry. This level of disrespect is outrageous. She deserves an apology #billboardisoverparty'

'Let’s beryllium clear—this was nary ‘error.’ It was malicious intent, thoughtfully produced to shame. Billboard deliberately utilized a revenge porn representation to disrespect Taylor Swift successful a video meant to observe her achievements. Whoever approved this indispensable beryllium held accountable.'

MailOnline has contacted Billboard for comment. 

The seeds of the feud betwixt Taylor and Kanye were planted astatine the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards connected September 13, 2009 astatine Radio City Music Hall successful New York City.

In the infamous exchange, Kanye infamously interrupted Taylor during her triumph code for the Best Female Video grant for You Belong With Me, which had been nominated against Beyonce's Single Ladies.

He emerged connected the signifier and took the microphone from the singer, telling her, 'Yo, Taylor, I'm truly blessed for you, I'mma fto you finish. But Beyonce had 1 of the champion videos of all-time! One of the champion videos of all-time.'

While the philharmonic stars appeared to beryllium connected amended presumption successful the years pursuing - they were pictured astatine a fig of events successful the years aft - things blew up aft the merchandise of Famous.

Kayne claimed astatine the clip that Taylor had fixed him her blessing to notation to her arsenic a 'B****' successful the lyrics of the song, successful a notation to the VMAs incident. 

Taylor said she ne'er made specified an agreement, leading to a nationalist feud with West aft helium and his erstwhile woman Kim Kardashian successful July of 2016 released a telephone West and Swift had implicit the contents of the Famous song.

Kim alluded to Taylor arsenic a snake upon the merchandise of the call, saying successful a tweet, 'Wait it's legit National Snake Day?!?!?They person holidays for everybody, I mean everything these days!'

In 2019, Taylor spoke to Vogue astir however she dealt with the high-profile scandal, saying she channeled her energies into her material.

'A wide nationalist shaming, with millions of radical saying you are quote-unquote canceled, is simply a precise isolating experience,' she said of the hard time. 'When you accidental idiosyncratic is canceled, it's not a TV show. It's a quality being.

'You're sending wide amounts of messaging to this idiosyncratic to either unopen up, disappear, oregon it could besides beryllium perceived as, "Kill yourself."'

The newest Billboard backlash comes aft fans went ballistic connected societal media aft learning that ranked her the 2nd top popular prima of the 21st period rather than giving her the fig 1 spot.

After bestowing her the covetable title, the outlet recognized that the inevitable contention that would 'tear done the net implicit her being conscionable 1 tiny abstraction beneath No. 1 is conscionable different testament to her power.'

While defending their determination not to springiness her fig 1 which volition presumably spell to philharmonic powerhouse Beyoncé, Billboard reminded readers that Swift got a 'much later' commencement successful the millennium successful some 'the genre and euphony successful general.'

Still, Swifties were enraged by the editorial determination made by Billboard's staff, who undertook the hard task of ranking the apical 25 top popular stars of the 21st century.

Underneath the announcement connected Instagram, a fig of  fans expressed their outrage arsenic they referred to the database arsenic a 'joke' and firmly insisted the Fortnight hitmaker had been 'robbed.'

'This is pathetic and should ACTUALLY beryllium corrected,' 1 commented. 'Who approved this list? First of all, yalls bs lists are ever unbelievably inaccurate.' 

Another wrote: 'She deserved #1 don’t adjacent prevarication she is the biggest creator of each clip not conscionable of the century.'

'How according to Billboard was Taylor the 8th connected thr "greatest creator of each clip list" but she isn’t the top creator of this century???? Beyonce isn't adjacent apical 10 AND It was earlier folklore, evermore, each the tvs, midnights, the eras tour, TTPD????' a 3rd asked.